July 14, 2019 ALP Monthly Meeting Report

 

Last July 14, members of Astronomical League of the Philippines held their monthly meeting at Alice’s Residence in Quezon City. Members who attended were ALP President James Kevin Ty and son Kendrick Cole KC Ty ; VP Jett Aguilar, PRO Alice Villa-Real , director Adi Bontuyan and new member Vince Josef Belen with her mom Alicia Belen and brother.

Meeting started at around 3pm with ALP President James Kevin Ty helping newbie Vince and his mom setup their new Celestron Inspire 100 AZ refractor. He help them setup the scope properly and how to align the zero dot finder with the main telescope. ALP VP Jett Aguilar also brought some ice cream as well as Pizzas and brewed coffee compliments of PRO Alice Villa-Real .
The July 17th Partial Lunar Eclipse was also discussed in detail but the weather outlook looks bad as there is a low pressure system entering the Philippine Area of Responsibility.

Meeting ended at around 6:30pm.